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  • GEOFF HURST'S 50 GREATEST FOOTBALLERS OF ALL TIME
    GEOFF HURST'S 50 GREATEST FOOTBALLERS OF ALL TIME
    GEOFF HURST
    Sir Geoff Hurst, from his vantage point as a true national hero and international football ambassador - and still the only man ever to score a hat-trick in a World Cup Final - risks controversy as he narrows down football's finest to a select 50 in this brilliant new book. ...
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  • THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
    THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
    THUCYDIDES,
    'The greatest historian that ever lived' Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. Thucydides hims...
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  • THE GOTHS
    THE GOTHS
    PETER HEATHER
    The volume is divided into three parts, corresponding to the three main phases in Gothic history: their early history down to the fourth century, the revolution in Gothic society set in motion by the arrival of the Huns, and the history of the Gothic successor states to the western Roman Empire. At its heart lies a new vision of Gothic identity, and of the social caste by whom ...
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  • BRITNEY
    BRITNEY
    DANNY WHITE
    She has sold more than 150 million albums, wowed sell-out audiences around the globe, and starred in iconic music videos, but Britney Spears' success has come with an unbearable price tag. This biography uncovers the story of how this church-going girl from the Deep South became an objectified teenage sensation and the princess of pop. It follows her rollercoaster existence ...
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  • THE ENGRAVER'S SECRET
    THE ENGRAVER'S SECRET
    LISA MEDVED
    Two women, a mysterious map, and a family secret spanning hundreds of years ... A stunning art history thriller set around the life, times, and feuds of the artist Peter Paul Rubens. 'An inspired blend of history and suspense ... This wonderful debut novel will inhabit your dreams' Dominic Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos and Return t...
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  • KEEPERS OF THE KEYS OF HEAVEN
    KEEPERS OF THE KEYS OF HEAVEN
    ROGER COLLINS
    Roger Collins offers an account of the entire arc of papal history, describing how its authority was acquired & exercised, & in turn, challenged & threatened; how it faced & overcame crises - both from within & without; its relationship with Rome; the tradition of artistic patronage; & the character & policies of individual popes. ...
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  • THE LAND OF LOST THINGS
    THE LAND OF LOST THINGS
    ANDY GRIFFITHS
    You and Me and the Land of Lost Things is the brand new adventure series from Andy Griffiths, the author behind the multi-million bestselling Treehouse series that puts YOU the reader right into the middle of the adventure! This book is highly illustrated by Bill Hope in a comic book style, perfect for fans of Dogman and Bunny vs Monkey. What are you waiting for? Come on in! ...
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    9,99 €

  • THE FURIES
    THE FURIES
    ELIZABETH FLOCK
    Brittany Smith, a young woman from Stevenson, Alabama, killed a man she said raped her in her own home, but was denied the protection of a self-defense argument. Angoori Dahariya led a gang in Uttar Pradesh, India, dedicated to avenging victims of domestic abuse. Cicek Mustafa Zibo fought in a thousands-strong all-female militia that battled ISIS in Syria. Can women's acts of...
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    13,75 €

  • LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES OWC:PB
    LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES OWC:PB
    PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS
    The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Its prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil--gifted, wealthy, and bored--form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game. And they play this game with such wit and style that it i...
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    9,99 €

  • EXEMPLARY NOVELS
    EXEMPLARY NOVELS
    MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
    Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic "Compressed masterworks, containing great canvases and big ideas in just a few pages. . . . A pleasure."--Kirkus Reviews The twelve novellas gathered in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limit...
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    22,50 €

  • HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE
    HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE
    ALAIN DE BOTTON
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    16,25 €

  • JADE LEGACY
    JADE LEGACY
    FONDA LEE
    Discover an epic trilogy about family, honour, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of blood and jade. ***Winner of the Locus Award for Best Novel*** The Kaul siblings battle their rival clans for honour and control over an East Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis in Jade Legacy, the page-turning conclusion to the Green Bone Saga. Praise for the Green Bone Saga: 'Jad...
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    13,75 €

  • THE ALCHEMIST
    THE ALCHEMIST
    BEN JONSON
    Complete and unabridged, with an introduction by Felix E. Schelling and a new timeline of the life and times of Ben Jonson, this elegantly designed, jacketed hardcover edition of The Alchemist is an essential collectible. First performed in 1610, The Alchemist was part of a quartet of comedies known for their wit, brilliant dialogue, and shrewd caricatures. Thought to be Jonson...
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  • THE LAND IN WINTER
    THE LAND IN WINTER
    ANDREW MILLER
    December 1962, the West Country. In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills. In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, in a farmhouse impossible to heat, funny, trou...
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    19,99 €

  • WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE
    WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE
    SHIRLEY JACKSON
    Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods ? until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat protects her from the curiosity and hostility of the villagers. Their days pass in happy ...
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    13,75 €

  • A CARNIVAL OF SNACKERY
    A CARNIVAL OF SNACKERY
    DAVID SEDARIS
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    13,75 €

  • SPEAK, MEMORY
    SPEAK, MEMORY
    VLADIMIR NABOKOV / VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH NABOKOV
    'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers-on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Young ...
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  • JUJUTSU KAISEN, VOL. 1
    JUJUTSU KAISEN, VOL. 1
    GEGE AKUTAMI
    To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural!In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's bo...
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    11,25 €

  • MARYVILLE
    MARYVILLE
    JOELLE TAYLOR
    A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION 'Taylor's poetry is as dangerous as it is dexterous . . . A wildfire blazing free' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Kaleidoscopic in its breath, structure and humanity . . . Both selfless and intimate' ANTHONY JOSEPH ----------------------------------------------------- From the T. S. Eliot and Polari Prize-winning author of C+NTO & Othered Poems come...
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    18,75 €

  • THE REAL JIM HAWKINS
    THE REAL JIM HAWKINS
    ROLAND PIETSCH
    Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevenson\u0092s Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy. This groundbreaking new work is a study of the origins, life and cultu...
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    29,95 €

  • DIRE BOUND
    DIRE BOUND
    SABLE SORENSEN
    Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games in this spicy, page-turning romantasy where humans and direwolves forge unbreakable bonds and fight for survival at all costs. Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She'll risk her life - and her heart - to be one of them. Meryn Cooper has always hated the Bonded, elite warriors who form mental links with the massive, vicious direwolve...
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    25,00 €

  • THE GREAT THEATRE RESCUE
    THE GREAT THEATRE RESCUE
    JUDITH EAGLE
    Escape to 1930s land of theatre in the joyous new middle-grade adventure from the author of The Accidental Stowaway. 1930, London Theatre Land. Charley has grown up behind the curtain in London's West End; she has even begun taking a turn on stage. But her dreams of being a performer are shattered when she is sent off to boarding school, a place where the girls are forced to d...
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  • THE RISK
    THE RISK
    ELLE KENNEDY
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    13,75 €

  • NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
    NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
    GEORGE ORWELL
    WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Winston Smith is a good worker. He supports the Party. He is good at his job rewriting history to Government specification. Big Brother watches him, but there is nothing to see. Winston's struggle against the totalitarian world he inhabits is a closely guarded secret. It exists only in his mind until he begins a secret lov...
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  • YOUR SILENCE WILL NOT PROTECT YOU
    YOUR SILENCE WILL NOT PROTECT YOU
    AUDRE LORDE
    Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'. A trailblazer in intersectional feminism, Lorde's luminous writings have inspired a new generation of thinkers and writers charged by the Black Lives Matter movement. Her lyrical and inci...
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  • HOW TO THINK ABOUT GOD
    HOW TO THINK ABOUT GOD
    MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
    A vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero's influential writings on the Stoic idea of the divineMost ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods—from Jupiter, Minerva, and Mars to countless local divinities, household gods, and ancestral spirits. One of the most influential Roman perspectives on religion came from a nonreligious belief ...
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    18,75 €

  • ISABELLA
    ISABELLA
    KIRSTIN DOWNEY
    An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in historyBorn at a time when Christianity was dying out and the Ottoman Empire was aggressively expanding, Isabella was inspire...
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    23,75 €

  • LEVIATHAN WAKES
    LEVIATHAN WAKES
    JAMES S. A. COREY
    NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL SERIES Leviathan Wakes is the first book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series - over 7 million copies sold worldwide. 'Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be' George R. R. Martin Humanity has colonised the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach. J...
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    12,50 €

  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - THE STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS
    BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - THE STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS
    BRIAN HIATT
    A detailed look at each and every one of his tracks, providing a unique look at this rock legend's method, as well as some of the many anecdotes and tales that are prolific in his long music history. ...
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    37,50 €

  • IN A THOUSAND DIFFERENT WAYS
    IN A THOUSAND DIFFERENT WAYS
    CECELIA AHERN
    Finding your way is never a simple journey... Alice sees the worst in people. She also sees the best. She sees a thousand different emotions and knows exactly what everyone around her is feeling. Every. Single. Day. But it's the dark thoughts. The sadness. The rage. These are the things she can't get out of her head. The things that overwhelm her. Where will the journey to ...
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